President-elect Donald Trump’s transition was in disarray Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that U.S. allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world.

One week after Trump scored an upset victory that took him by surprise, his team was improvising the most basic traditions of assuming power. That included working without official State Department briefing materials in his first conversations with foreign leaders.

Two officials who had been handling national security for the transition, former Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., and Matthew Freedman, a lobbyist who consults with corporations and foreign governments, were fired. Both were part of what officials described as a purge orchestrated by Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and close adviser.

The dismissals followed the firing Friday of Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, who was replaced as chief of the transition by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Kushner, a transition official said, was systematically dismissing people like Rogers who had ties with Christie. As a federal prosecutor, Christie had sent Kushner’s father to jail.

U.S. allies were in the meantime scrambling to figure out how and when to contact Trump. At times they have been patched through to him with little warning, according to a Western diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity to detail private conversations.

President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt was the first to reach Trump for such a call last Wednesday, followed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israeli. That was about 24 hours before Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain got through — a break from diplomatic practice given the close alliance between the United States and Britain.

Despite the haphazard nature of Trump’s early calls with world leaders, his advisers said the transition team was not suffering unusual setbacks. They argued that the team was hard at work dealing with the same troubles that incoming presidents have faced for decades.

Trump himself fired back at critics with a Twitter message at about 10 p.m.

“Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions,” he wrote. “I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!”

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